Anthony Oliver-Smith

Anthony Oliver-Smith is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is also affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies and the School of Natural Resources and Environment at that institution. In 2005-2009 he held the Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability at the United Nations University Institute on Environment and Human Security in Bonn, Germany. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk of the International Council for Science. He has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to disasters and involuntary resettlement in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. His work on disasters includes The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes (1986, 1992), The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective (Routledge 1998, co-edited with Susanna M. Hoffman) and Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disasters (SAR Press 2003, co-edited with Susanna M. Hoffman). His work on displacement and resettlement include Involuntary Migration and Resettlement: The Problems and Responses of Dislocated Peoples (Westview 1982 co-edited with Art Hansen), Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement (edited SAR Press, 2009) and Defying Displacement: Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development (University of Texas Press 2010). In addition he has authored or co-authored over 60 journal articles and book chapters on disasters and displacement issues.